On behalf of HoWL and all the students who volunteered in order to earn scholarships for their expeditions this summer, I would like to thank the Rotary Club of Homer Downtown and the Rotary District 5010 Grants Committee for their grant that funded $2000 of additional scholarships, awarded mid-summ...

The Homer High School Mariner Co-op Hockey Team would like to thank the community of Homer for coming out to support them in the End of the Road Shootout held Nov. 21-23 at the Kevin Bell Arena. It was a great to have so many fans cheering for the Mariners.
We also would like to thank our supporters...

A big thank you to all of the sponsors of the Early Childhood Wellness Fair which was part of the larger Rotary Health Fair held at Homer High School on Nov. 2. This was the first year that included an emphasis on early childhood wellness. Sponsors for this event included Best Beginnings of Homer, S...

Homer’s Jeans is an example of a local business that gives back to the community. With more than 600,000 homeless people in the United States, You Tube sensation, Kid President, started a campaign encouraging donations of socks to those in need for the month of October. Homer’s Jeans took the ch...

In view of the Homer City Council’s recent budget meetings and need to allocate limited funds, here are my thoughts on the question. First, thank you for supporting the needs assessment allocation; and second, please reconsider the cuts made to the Pratt and the Homer Foundation.
I also woul...

Ah, the sweet sound of philanthropy ...
Thanks to the Homer Foundation’s Youth Advisory Committee for granting The Homer Youth String Orchestra Club funds to purchase new sheet music. Due to the generosity of individual donors to the Youth Advisory Committee, the Ashley J. Logan Fund, and th...

Companies that morally oppose birth control don’t want to pay for it via Obamacare. That made me think: I’m a peace activist. I morally oppose war, the military, guns, etc., and wish my tax money didn’t support it. Can I take that to the Supreme Court to divert my money for education?
If...

RIP JFK. Fifty years later it’s mostly known the who, how, and why of his assassination.
Will it be 50 years before the true perpetrators of 9/11 also are known?
JFK”s words: “The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society” and “Those that make peaceful revolutio...

Every year at city budget time there’s discussion of cutting funding to the Pratt Museum and the Homer Foundation. Every year I fear that the public has lost touch with the history behind that funding. In particular, I want Homer folks to understand that the city does not fund the Homer Foun...